Recently, there occurred a sharp splash of interest towards Africa on the part of both the modern world leading states, and the biggest Asian powers striving to be in their number. More attention to the Black Continent has been caused by political and economic reasons, though the latter obviously prevail. Since the early 2000s, the level of proneness to conflict in Africa (the world highest before) has dropped, economic growth has begun. Because of worsening global deficiency of natural resources, the leading countries of the West and East experience growing need in them, try to diversify their sources to provide for stability of their resource supply. Africa was and still is the important raw materials base of the world economy. Of great importance are not just used and explored resources of platinum, diamonds, chromites, manganese, cobalt, gold etc., there are perspectives of oil and gas industrial development. In a word, the deeper goes the globalization process, the more wanted the African potential is to become, the more influence the African factor is to exert over the world development.

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